1 Jeremiah laments the misery of Jerusalem
20 He complains thereof to God

how La 1:1 4:1

covered La 3:43,44 Eze 30:18 32:7,8 Joe 2:2

and cast Isa 14:14-15 Eze 28:14-16 Mt 11:23 Lu 10:15,18 Re 12:7-9

the beauty 1Sa 4:21 2Sa 1:19 Isa 64:11 Eze 7:20-22 24:21

his footstool 1Ch 28:2 Ps 99:5 132:7

2 The LORD hath swallowed up all the habitations of Jacob, and hath not pitied: he hath thrown down in his wrath the strong holds of the daughter of Judah; he hath brought them down to the ground: he hath polluted the kingdom and the princes thereof.

swallowed La 1:17,21 3:43 Job 2:3 Ps 21:9 Isa 27:11 Jer 13:14 21:7 Eze 5:11 7:4,9 8:18 9:10 Zec 11:5,6 Mt 18:33

he hath thrown La 2:5,17 Jer 5:10 Mic 5:11,12 Mal 1:4 2Co 10:4

brought them down to Heb. made to touch Isa 25:12 26:5

polluted Ps 89:39,40 Isa 23:9 43:28 47:6

3 He hath cut off in his fierce anger all the horn of Israel: he hath drawn back his right hand from before the enemy, and he burned against Jacob like a flaming fire, which devoureth round about.

the horn Job 16:15 Ps 75:5,10 89:24 132:17 Jer 48:25 Lu 1:69

he hath Ps 74:11

he burned De 32:22 Ps 79:5 89:46 Isa 1:31 42:25 Jer 4:4 7:20 Mal 4:1 Lu 3:17

4 He hath bent his bow like an enemy: he stood with his right hand as an adversary, and slew all that were pleasant to the eye in the tabernacle of the daughter of Zion: he poured out his fury like fire.

bent La 2:5 3:3,12,13 Job 6:4 16:12-14 Isa 63:10 Jer 21:5 30:14

that were pleasant to the eye. Heb. the desirable of the eye Eze 24:25

he poured La 4:1 2Ch 34:21,25 Isa 42:25 51:17-20 63:6 Jer 4:4 7:20 21:5,12 36:7 Eze 5:13 6:12 22:22 36:18 Na 1:2,6

5 The LORD was as an enemy: he hath swallowed up Israel, he hath swallowed up all her palaces: he hath destroyed his strong holds, and hath increased in the daughter of Judah mourning and lamentation.

was La 2:4 Jer 15:1 30:14

he hath swallowed up Israel La 2:2 2Ki 25:9 2Ch 36:16,17 Jer 51:13

mourning Eze 2:10

6 And he hath violently taken away his tabernacle, as if it were of a garden: he hath destroyed his places of the assembly: the LORD hath caused the solemn feasts and sabbaths to be forgotten in Zion, and hath despised in the indignation of his anger the king and the priest.

he hath violently. 'He hath destroyed the temple, as if it had been no better than a cottage erected in a garden, while the fruit is gathering, and then removed, or suffered to decay.' Ps 80:12 89:40 Isa 5:5 63:18 64:11

tabernacle. or hedge as if Isa 1:8

caused La 1:4 Zep 3:18

the king La 4:16,20 5:12 Isa 43:28 Jer 52:11-27 Eze 12:12,13 17:18 Mal 2:9

7 The LORD hath cast off his altar, he hath abhorred his sanctuary, he hath given up into the hand of the enemy the walls of her palaces; they have made a noise in the house of the LORD, as in the day of a solemn feast.

cast off La 2:1 Le 26:31,44 Ps 78:59-61 Isa 64:10,11 Jer 7:12-14 26:6,18 51:13 Eze 7:20-22 24:21 Mic 3:12 Mt 24:2 Ac 6:13,14

given up Heb. shut up La 2:5 2Ch 36:19 Jer 32:29 33:3,4 39:8 Eze 7:24 Am 2:5

they have Ps 72:4 74:3-8 Eze 7:21,22

8 The LORD hath purposed to destroy the wall of the daughter of Zion: he hath stretched out a line, he hath not withdrawn his hand from destroying: therefore he made the rampart and the wall to lament; they languished together.

purposed La 2:17 Isa 5:5 Jer 5:10

stretched 2Sa 8:2 2Ki 21:13 Isa 28:17 34:11 Am 7:7,8

he hath not Job 13:21 Eze 20:22

destroying. Heb. swallowing up La 2:2,5

he made Isa 3:26 Jer 14:2

9 Her gates are sunk into the ground; he hath destroyed and broken her bars: her king and her princes are among the Gentiles: the law is no more; her prophets also find no vision from the LORD.

gates Ne 1:3 Jer 39:2,8 51:30 52:14

her king La 1:3 4:15,20 De 28:36 2Ki 24:12-15 25:7 Jer 52:8,9 Eze 12:13 17:20

the law 2Ch 15:3 Eze 7:26 Ho 3:4

her prophets Ps 74:9 Am 8:11,12 Mic 3:6,7

10 The elders of the daughter of Zion sit upon the ground, and keep silence: they have cast up dust upon their heads; they have girded themselves with sackcloth: the virgins of Jerusalem hang down their heads to the ground.

elders La 4:5,16 5:12,14 Job 2:13 Isa 3:26 47:1,5

sit. Sitting on the ground was a posture of mourning and deep distress. Hence the coin struck by Vespasian, on the capture of Jerusalem, has on the obverse side a palm tree, the emblem of Judea, and under it a woman, the emblem of Jerusalem, sitting down, with her elbow on her knee, and her head supported by her hand, with the legend Judea capta La 1:1

and keep La 3:28 Jer 8:14 Am 5:13 8:3

cast up Jos 7:6 2Sa 13:19 Job 2:12 Re 18:19

they have girded Isa 15:3 36:22 Eze 7:18 27:31 Joe 1:8

the virgins La 1:4 Am 8:13

11 Mine eyes do fail with tears, my bowels are troubled, my liver is poured upon the earth, for the destruction of the daughter of my people; because the children and the sucklings swoon in the streets of the city.

eyes La 1:16 3:48-51 1Sa 30:4 Ps 6:7 31:9 69:3 Isa 38:14

my bowels La 1:20 Jer 4:19

my liver Job 16:13 Ps 22:14

for La 4:10 Isa 22:4 Jer 8:19-22 9:1 14:17

because La 2:19,20 4:3,4,9,10 Lu 23:29

swoon or faint

12 They say to their mothers, Where is corn and wine? when they swooned as the wounded in the streets of the city, when their soul was poured out into their mothers' bosom.

as the Eze 30:24

soul Isa 53:12

13 What thing shall I take to witness for thee? what thing shall I liken to thee, O daughter of Jerusalem? what shall I equal to thee, that I may comfort thee, O virgin daughter of Zion? for thy breach is great like the sea: who can heal thee?

shall I take La 1:12 Da 9:12

for 2Sa 5:20 Ps 60:2 Jer 14:17 Eze 26:3,4

who can Jer 8:22 30:12-15 51:8,9

14 Thy prophets have seen vain and foolish things for thee: and they have not discovered thine iniquity, to turn away thy captivity; but have seen for thee false burdens and causes of banishment.

prophets Isa 9:15,16 Jer 2:8 5:31 6:13,14 8:10,11 14:13-15 23:11-17 27:14-16 28:15 29:8,9 37:19 Eze 13:2-16 Mic 2:11 3:5-7 2Pe 2:1

they have Isa 58:1 Jer 23:22 Eze 13:22

false Jer 23:14-17,31,32 27:9,10 Eze 22:25,28 Mic 3:5 Zep 3:4

15 All that pass by clap their hands at thee; they hiss and wag their head at the daughter of Jerusalem, saying, Is this the city that men call The perfection of beauty, The joy of the whole earth?

The combination of scorn, enmity, rage, and exultation, which the conquerors and spectators manifested at the destruction of Jerusalem and the temple, are here described with peculiar pathos and energy. The whole scene is presented to view as in an exquisitely finished historical painting. that pass De 29:22-28 1Ki 9:7-9 2Ch 7:21 Jer 18:16

by Heb by the way. clap La 1:8 Job 27:22,23 Eze 25:6 Na 3:19

they La 2:16 Jer 19:8 25:9,18 29:18 51:37 Mic 6:16 Zep 2:15

wag 2Ki 19:21 Ps 22:7 44:14,15 Isa 37:22 Jer 18:16 Mt 27:39 Mr 15:29

is this La 2:6 Ps 48:2 50:2 Isa 64:11

16 All thine enemies have opened their mouth against thee: they hiss and gnash the teeth: they say, We have swallowed her up: certainly this is the day that we looked for; we have found, we have seen it.

thine La 3:46 Job 16:9,10 Ps 22:13 35:21 109:2

gnash Ps 35:16 37:12 112:10 Ac 7:54

we have swallowed Ps 56:2 57:3 124:3 Isa 49:19 Jer 50:7,17 51:34 Eze 25:3,6,15 36:3 Ho 8:8 Zep 2:8-10

we have seen Ps 35:21 41:8 Ob 1:12-16

17 The LORD hath done that which he had devised; he hath fulfilled his word that he had commanded in the days of old: he hath thrown down, and hath not pitied: and he hath caused thine enemy to rejoice over thee, he hath set up the horn of thine adversaries.

done La 2:8 Le 26:14 De 28:15 29:18-23 31:16,17 32:15-27 Jer 18:11 Mic 2:3

he hath thrown La 2:1,2 Eze 5:11 7:8,9 8:18 9:10

he hath caused La 1:5 De 28:43,44 Ps 38:16 89:42

18 Their heart cried unto the LORD, O wall of the daughter of Zion, let tears run down like a river day and night: give thyself no rest; let not the apple of thine eye cease.

heart Ps 119:145 Isa 26:16,17 Ho 7:14

O wall La 2:8 Hab 2:11

let tears La 1:2,16 3:48,49 Ps 119:136 Jer 4:31 9:1,17,18 13:17 14:17

the apple. Bath ayin, which sometimes means the pupil of the eye, seems here to denote tears, the produce of the eye; and therefore elegantly termed the daughter of the eye.

19 Arise, cry out in the night: in the beginning of the watches pour out thine heart like water before the face of the LORD: lift up thy hands toward him for the life of thy young children, that faint for hunger in the top of every street.

cry out Ps 42:8 62:8 119:55,147,148 Isa 26:9 Mr 1:35 Lu 6:12

watches Jud 7:19 Mt 14:25 Mr 13:35

pour 1Sa 1:15 7:6 Job 3:24 Ps 62:8 142:2

lift up Ps 28:2 63:4 134:2 141:2 1Ti 2:8

that faint La 2:11,12 4:1-9 Isa 51:20 Eze 5:10,16 Na 3:10

20 Behold, O LORD, and consider to whom thou hast done this. Shall the women eat their fruit, and children of a span long? shall the priest and the prophet be slain in the sanctuary of the Lord?

consider Ex 32:11 De 9:26 Isa 63:16-19 64:8-12 Jer 14:20-21

shall the women La 4:10 Le 26:29 De 28:53-57 2Ki 6:28,29 Jer 19:9 Eze 5:10

of a span long or swaddled with their hands. shall the priest La 1:19 4:13,16 Ps 78:64 Isa 9:14-17 Jer 5:31 14:15-18 23:11-15 Eze 9:5,6

21 The young and the old lie on the ground in the streets: my virgins and my young men are fallen by the sword; thou hast slain them in the day of thine anger; thou hast killed, and not pitied.

young De 28:50 Jos 6:21 1Sa 15:3 2Ch 36:17 Es 3:13 Jer 51:22 Eze 9:6

my virgins La 1:15,18 Ps 78:63 Jer 9:21 11:22 18:21 Am 4:10

thou hast killed La 2:2,17 3:43 Isa 27:11 Jer 13:14 21:7 Eze 5:11 7:4,9 8:18 9:5,10 Zec 11:6

22 Thou hast called as in a solemn day my terrors round about, so that in the day of the LORD's anger none escaped nor remained: those that I have swaddled and brought up hath mine enemy consumed.

my terrors Ps 31:13 Isa 24:17,18 Jer 6:25 20:3 46:5 Am 9:1-4

those De 28:18 Jer 16:2-4 Ho 9:12-16 Lu 23:29,30